Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until December 30, 1922, Russia was known as the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. At that date, however, the four principal Soviet Republics (Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, White Russia, Ukraine, Transcaucasian Federation) met at Moscow and signed a Treaty of Union setting up the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which now embraces what might be termed Greater Russia...
...Chicagoan vaporings assert that " the British syndicate, which comprises a dozen big banks and shipping companies, proposes to reconstruct the railroads in Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia, and possibly also Italy and Germany, and eventually Russia, in one vast private undertaking...
Peter the Great. Russia has been seized by the movies. The 18th century (when the Court conducted itself on a scale that only the movies can latterly conceive) is the background of the present opus. Intrigue, war with Sweden, all the old town pomp of St. Petersburg pass bravely in review. Yet the most impressive feature of the entertainment is Emil Janning's Peter. Under the play of his personality the moving picture book of history comes vividly to life...
Vaccination against dysentery and typhoid fever by the mouth instead of by injection has been tried in Russia with favorable results, according to Dr. Shiemaskho, Soviet Commissar of Health. The vaccine was supplied by the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and Dr. Ludwik Rajehman, Medical Director of the League of Nations Health Committee, proposes to test the method experimentally and, if successful, to use it against epidemics in Eastern Europe...
...states rights in Russia. Precursor...